Featured Speakers
Monday, July 30, 2007
Opening Session
8:00-9:30am
Dr. Edward Latessa, University of Cincinnati, Division of Criminal Justice
What Works with Juvenile Offenders in Reducing Recidivism
This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the principles of effective juvenile justice programming and empasize the value and utility of emplying evidence=based and research driven practices in planning, adminstering, and evaluating programs. Specifically, Dr. Latessa will cover the following points:
- What the research shows produces the strongest effects
- Attitudes, values, and beliefs, peer associations, personality, past behavior, family, education and employment
- Risk - the importance of targeting higher risk youth & the harm that can be done with low risk youth
- Need - the importance of trageting criminogenic factors
- Treatment - using behavioral approaches that teach new skills
- Fidelity - ensuring that the programs are delivered as designed
- Non-behavorial approaches
- Targeting non-criminal factors
- Punishing smarter
Edward J. Latessa is a professor and Head of the Division of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Latessa has published over 110 works in the area of criminal justice, correctons, and juvenile justice. He is co-author of seven books including Corrections in the Community and Corrections in America. Dr. Latessa has directed over 100 funded research projects including studies of day reporting centers,. juvenile justice programs, drug courts, intensive supervision programs, halfway houses, and drug programs. He and his staff have also assessed over 450 correctional programs throughout the United States. Dr. Latessa is a consultant with the National Institute of Corrections and he has provided assistance and workshops in over forty states. Dr. Latessa served as President of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1989-90). He has also received several awards including the August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology (2004), the Simon Dinitz Criminal Justice Research Award from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (2002), the Margaret Mead Award for didicated service to the causes of social justice and humanitarian advancement by the International Community Corrections Association (2001), the Peter P. Lejins Award for Research from the American Correctional Association (1999); ACJS Fellow Award (1998), ACJS Founders Award (1992), and the Simon Dinitz Award by the Ohio Community Corrections Organization.
Luncheon
12:20 - 2:00 pm
Dr. Joan Cillece, Project Director, NASMHPD, Alexandria, VA
- 1. Handout 1 (pdf)
2. Handout 2 (pdf)
What is Trauma and Why We Must Address it in Juvenile Justice
Dr Gillece is the Project Director for the National Coordinating Center for the Seclusion and Restraint Reduction Initiative. The Coordinating Center works with eight state grantees to implement best practice alternatives to seclusion and restraint in faculities serving adults, child and forensic populations. Prior to coming to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Dr. Gillece was the Director of Special Needs Populations for Maryland's Mental Hygiene Administration. She was responsible for developing and sustaining services for Maryland citizens who have serious mental illness and may also be incarcerated in local detention centers, homeless, suffering from a co-occuring substance abuse disorder, or deaf. She has been successful in obtaining private, state, local, and federal funding to create a patchwork of services for Speical Needs Pupulations. Dr. Gillece obtainted funding to develop a program for pregnant, incarcerated women and their newborns. The program, called Tamar's Children, was designed to break the intergenearational cycle of despair, poverty, addiction, and criminality. She has spoken extensively on developing model systems of care through partnerships across agencies. Dr. Gillece has provided consultation to numerous states on developing innovative institutional and community based systems of care for individuals with co-occuring disorders in the justice system through the GAINS Center and the National Institute of Corrections.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
General Session
8:00-9:30 am
Dr. Lisa Boesky, Child/Adolescent Psychologist, San Diego, CA
- 1. Handout 1 (pdf)
What's Going On With This Youth: Important Myths and Facts of Mental Health Evaluations
Everyone says "get a mental health evaluation"-but what does that mean? Who should do that evaluating? Who should participate in the evaluation? What should you expect from the evaluation? What factors can inferfere with the accuracy of the evaluation? What if you don't agree with the evaluation? What challenges exist when evaluating youth? These and other key questions related to "evaluating" youth for emotional and behavorial problems are answered in the practical and user-friendly way so you know can really find out what's going on with the youth you work with.
Lisa Boesky, Ph.D., is a Child/Adolescent Psychologist specializing in the identification, management, and treatment of juveniles with mental health disorders, including those who are suicidal or who self-injure. She has designed several mental health trainging programs and provides high-energy and dynamic workshops to parents and professionals in education, juvenile justice and treatment setting across the United States and abroad. She helped develop a mentla health screening tool and has consulted on mental health policy and programming to a variety of youth agencies. She is the author of the new book " When to Worry: How To Know If Your Teen Needs Help-And What To Do About It" and her book " Juvenile Offenders with Mental Health Disorders: Who Are They and What Do We Do With Them" remains a standard in the field.
Luncheon & Closing Session
12:20-2:00 pm
Hasan Davis, Director, Empowerment Solutions; Chair, Kentucky Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee; Vice-Chair, Federal Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. Point Lick, KY
- 1. Handout 1 (pdf)
Courage to Change
In this address Hasan will share his Away from No Way philosophy as he takes you down the road of his personal transformation. He will share some of the life lessons that allowed him to exchange one JD for another, to go from Hasan Davis, Juvenile Delinquent to Hasan Davis, Juris Doctor. At the same time Hasan will share the stories of the many people who chose to move away from no way attitudes that would have allowed them to believe that his life was a wasted investment of time and resources. These people, like you, had to get creative in finding or developing the tools that would help Hasan find a way from no way, a way from the life he thought offered only a short, violent existence from which there was no way out. Along the journey you might come to believe the truth that Hasan has been blessed to learn first hand, "the only people that we cannot reach are those whom we refuse to touch."
Diagnosed Learning Disabled/Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder at an early age, arrested at 11 and expelled from alternative school at 18. Hasan earned his G.E.D. from the state of Georgia Department of Education. From there he went on to Berea College. After being expelled from Berea twice, Hasan returned to receive his B.A. in Oral Communications. The year he graduated, Hasan was elected President of the student body, homecoming kind, and was recipient of the Navy V-12 Award for his active role in all areas of student campus life. While at Berea, Hasan made a name for himself in the theater department and on the forensics team. After Berea, Hasan decided that with his learning difficulties and history of educational challanges he should go to law school. After three and a half year, Hasan received his Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky.
Recently, Hasan was appointed to the Federal Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. In 2004, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the JJAC. Hasan has served as the Chairman of the Kentucky Juvenile Justice Advisory Board since 1999 and is Past Vice-President and a founding board memeber of the Boys and GIrls Club of Madison County. In 2001, Hasan was selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership (NGL) Fellow. In 2002, he was hired as Counsulting Co-Manager of the Next Generation Leadership Program
Hasan uses his experience to create an instant rapport with youth and adult alike. His speaking style is riveting, honest, heartfelt, and endearing. Not many can talk to a room full of Wall Street bankers and an auditorium of maximum-security inmates and receive standing ovations from from both, but Hasan has.
As a facilitator and trainer, Hasan has developed programs for government, corporate, and non-profit agencies in the areas of youth development, leadership and team building, cultural competency, and conflict/anger management. Artistically, Hasan had been recognized as an educator and performer. He uses his work to create an experiential environment for new learning and appreciation to take place.